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Michael Neidorff, the chairman and CEO of Centene—a Clayton, Missouri-based health insurer that focuses on serving low- and moderate-income people and Medicare enrollees—warned about the resurgence of the pandemic during a conference call the company held to go over second-quarter earnings.

The Covid-19 delta variant has changed the environment for health insurance dramatically in just the past week or so, and the variant now is causing a new wave of the pandemic, Neidorff said.

"It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Neidorff said. "It is clear that one of the issues we must address is vaccine hesitancy, to stop the transmission of this virus and protect those who cannot safely receive the inoculation, including young children."

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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